Semenyuk biography

Honorary Metallurg. Member of the defense of the Brest Fortress. Saved the battle banner of the Brest Fortress inside the Memorial of the combat and labor glory of the Kuznetsk metallurgists is the section “They were the first” dedicated to the border guards, who in June were the first to take the terrible blow of the fascists. Here is a front -line tunic of Rodion Semenyuk, under which, then, in the Brest Fortress, he hid the banner of his native division.

There are two signs on the tunic - “Guard” and “Honorary Border Guard”. Rodion Semenyuk was born on April 28 in the village of Strelniki, Vinnitsa region in the family, there were 6 children, of all the children, only the sister of Galina is alive according to the year, lives in the village of Strelniki. All pre -war life took place on a native collective farm in the Vinnitsa region. Since the year he was the head of the rural club and secretary of the Komsomol organization.

In the year, the fellow villagers elected him a deputy of the Strelnitsky rural Council of Workers' Deputies, and in November, Rodion Semenyuk was called up for the actual service. The Ukrainian Rodion Semenyuk at the time of the beginning of the war turned 19 years old. From June to July, he heroically defended the eastern fort of the Brest fortress as part of a separate anti -aircraft artillery division of 42 army.

Two rifle formations of the Soviet Army were located here, most units were brought to the camps. In the fortress, a total of a little more regiment was in a total. When the fascist troops treacherously brought down a blow to the fortress, many fighters and commanders died in the very first minutes of the attack, never realizing what was happening around. The Nazis rushed to the center of the citadel, hoping to capture the fortress with a quick throw.

Stunned by explosions, many wounded, soldiers took up a circular defense. Semenyuk perched by the extreme window and saw how a separate anti-aircraft artillery division was located near the tent, where there was a separate anti-aircraft artillery division. The tent collapsed. Save him, ”the battery commander ordered a hoarsely voice. Having overcome the distance to the tent, he tore a silk panel from the pole and put it behind the tunic.

He crawled back among the rising fire pillars. A child floated above the fortress. Everything merged into a continuous rumble. Under continuous bombing and shelling, in furious hand -to -hand fights, a garrison in incredibly difficult conditions without water and food, with the remains of shells, continued to fulfill its military duty. After a violent bombing that does not stop the shelling of assault guns and tanks, filling the eastern fort with tear gas, on June 30, the Nazi detachments broke into the shafts of Bastion.

In the last battle on the orders of Major Gavrilov, Private Tarasov, junior sergeant Rodion Semenyuk and Ivan Folvarkov buried the banner of the division to the Paul Cazemat. They wrapped it in a tarp, put it in a tarpaulin bucket taken from the stable, and then closed the zinc bucket and so buried in one of the casemates. And they only managed to do this and throw a tamped earth with garbage, as the Nazis broke into the fort.

Tarasov was immediately killed, and Folvarkov was captured with Semenyuk and died later, in the Nazi camp. Semenyuk tried three times to flee the camp in Germany, to no avail. He was released from captivity on March 25. He worked as an apparatchik pyridine installations of coke -chemical production. Semenyuk often recalled terrible tragic days in the eastern fort, mentally imagined how the banner would undermine.

This is how the information happened to the head. Mityukova: in the city He was sent a challenge.

It was buried in the clay concrete floor of the casemate at a depth of 50 cm. The covers rotted and crumbled, but the banner was preserved, well enough and was transferred to the eternal storage to the defense museum of the Brest Fortress. For the defense of the fortress in the summer of the year and for the salvation of the banner, Semenyuk Rodion Ksenofontovich was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and a valuable gift of the year.

In the year, in honor of the Flight of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree. For more than a dozen years, Rodion Ksenofontovich Semenyuk gave to the Kuznetsk plant. From here in the year went on a well -deserved rest. He has a lot of labor awards. He is “Honorary Metallurg”. Semenyuk often spoke to youth, gave lectures on the war. He lived at the address: metallurgists in the year after the death of his wife, and later the only son, his relatives invited him to live in Leningrad.

In recent years, he lived in Izmail of the Odessa region with his daughter Galina. He died on November 26. The funeral in Izmail with his son Alexei.